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Dismembering diplomacy’s fourth wall

13 November 2018

4:12 PM

13 November 2018

4:12 PM

Strange things happen at international embassies all the time.

In 1984 a female British police officer was shot from the window of London’s Libyan Embassy when patrolling a protest of expatriates protesting against Libyan Dictator Muammar Gaddafi.

The order to shoot was given by Gaddafi himself who simply couldn’t abide the criticism.

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